MY TEN KOBO:THE RICKETY PEDESTAL

Our forefathers said that to truly know a man's character, give him money or power, or both.

Obviously all it takes nowadays is a tin of NAN, or is it Cerelac, to do the damage.

When one misyarns, and it is bound to happen once in a while, the best thing is to keep quiet, take his ass whupping like a man, and hope another former "champion" would misjive fast to take the heat off you.

By trying to clarify your foot in the mouth moment, you may end up putting your entire reputation on the line, and come across as just another Joe who speaks from both sides of the mouth, and that, egbon, is the real tragedy.

Sometimes when we are in the News, whether AM or PM, we must realise that to err is human, but to insist that the momentary slip of judgement is not an error but a well calculated opinion based on facts, is in itself, an error.

That is the danger of standing on a pedestal, the fall would be loud, and the damage, permanent.

My Ten Kobo.